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In Reply to: From my experience, FUSION killed jazz posted by rickmcinnis@dogwoodfabrics.com on April 18, 2016 at 07:01:39:
In the beginning there was Marching. Marching eventually gave way to Swinging. Swinging eventually gave way to Rocking. The one prerequisite for the continuum was that the music could be used in a dance hall or party of some kind.(As an aside, there is also the phenomena of Bopping to consider. But Bop rhythms had the tendency to tie themselves into cerebral energies; not danceable enough.)
"Rocking", for many, is one of the most *infectious* forms of musical entertainment. It clearly ties itself directly to the human nervous system and some of our most primary body rhythms and functions.Breathing, heartbeats, walking, running, repetitious labor, etc... These things rock within us, perhaps much more than they bop or swing or march or even glide within us.
Syncopation seems to have made it's way into the American consciousness via the traditions of African laborers that were at one time imported into this country in droves. African work rhythms eventually became intertwined with European marching rhythms. And so the story goes...
Once Rocking gained a foothold in music became it became difficult to moderate or control. Coincidentally - and perhaps ironically as well - the new sound in music blended in extremely well with the new sounds produced by the automated machines proliferating in industrialized societies. Rocking, Beating, Thumping, Whining, Whirring, Swishing. New Instincts, for a New Millenium.
Once people started rocking they found it hard to stop or to go backwards to Swinging and/or Marching, much less Bopping. Although Gliding was/is not completely out of the question.
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